Would you leave a 5yo with 13yo sibling in a hotel?

[Anonymous]

Not if you are leaving the hotel property. I’d do it to eat dinner there, where you can easily come up to check on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What on earth? It’s a 13 year old!!! Isn’t that when you all started babysitting?

My teen started babysitting at 12/13. My issue with this, and why I said no, is that it’s a hotel. You don’t know who has access to that room in terms of a key for example.

[Anonymous]

No. We have left our kids in a hotel room with an older cousin, but she was 15 and was an experienced babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What on earth? It’s a 13 year old!!! Isn’t that when you all started babysitting?

I started babysitting children in their own homes when I was 12. There is no way in hell my mom would have let me babysit a kid alone in a hotel room at that age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What on earth? It’s a 13 year old!!! Isn’t that when you all started babysitting?

Op here. When I had 2 kids, I used my next door neighbor’s 13yo to babysit my then 5yo so I could take my 3yo to a birthday party.

So far we have only left 5yo with 12yo, not 13 yet, for very short periods of time. Like I may leave the youngest with oldest so I can drop off middle kid at soccer practice. Or if I have somewhere to go and Dh is on his way home from work.

They babysat in your home with their parents nearby as well as neighbors. Very different.

[Anonymous]

Lone dissenter but I’d do this if the 13 year old is very responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This is a show I want to see. I just had a better idea. I could take the two older kids and leave the little one with DH.

This is the best plan, OP.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the children. For mine, absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

No way. I wouldn't even leave a 13 yr old alone in a hotel room by themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way. I wouldn't even leave a 13 yr old alone in a hotel room by themselves.

Neither would I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way. I wouldn't even leave a 13 yr old alone in a hotel room by themselves.

Neither would I.

Really? I would totally do that. What are you worried would happen?

[Anonymous]

No way!! Are you crazy? Very unsafe. Selfish on top of that.

[Anonymous]

Omg people. Chill out. They’ll be fine. Get a bonanza from room service. Let them rent movies and play on the iPad. Odds are they will be in the exact same spots you left them as when you return. There’s no childnappers just waiting for kids to be left alone in a hotel room. Tel them to lock the door from the inside and don’t answer for anyone. If there’s a fire then go down the stairs. There’s not gonna be a fire. Go have fun. Let them grow a little. Make sure they know not to touch the sprinklers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What on earth? It’s a 13 year old!!! Isn’t that when you all started babysitting?

I think it's bc the 13 year old would have to watch 2 kids. I'd do it if it was just one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lone dissenter but I’d do this if the 13 year old is very responsible.

Same